28 February 2011 | Architecture, Modern
Architectural historian Loretta Lorance died Feb. 26, of breast cancer, according to an email sent to the CAA Student Members list-serv. She obtained her PhD from CUNY, taught at various universities, and published the 2009 book Becoming Bucky Fuller with MIT Press. Felicity D. Scott reviewed the book in the September 2010 Journal of the [...]
24 February 2011 | Books, Career, Journals
Those of you still recovering from a marathon four days of conference-going earlier this month may wince at the notion of “100 Years of the College Art Association,” but in the hands of Susan Ball, it’s an appealing subject. She has just published a fine volume she edited on CAA’s history, “The Eye, The Hand, [...]
14 February 2011 | Conferences
Apparently I have conference-reporting fatigue. I have rounded up (and sometimes contributed to) CAA coverage for the last five years, but this year I just can’t seem to muster the enthusiasm necessary to comb blogs and tweets for the pithiest aperçus into the power-point-a-thon that is the College Art Association annual conference. Next year I [...]
12 February 2011 | Museums
Françoise Cachin, founding director of the Musée d’Orsay, died in Paris last weekend at age 74. She was the granddaughter of Neo-Impressionist painter Paul Signac and a specialist in Impressionist and post-Impressionist art. After leading the Musée d’Orsay for eight years, Cachin went on to serve as Director of Museums in France. William Grimes writes in the [...]
9 February 2011 | Conferences
The 2011 College Art Association conference begins today in New York. Alas I couldn’t make it this year, but I look forward to rounding up coverage as it appears. Charlie Finch writes about sexism in hiring. On Twitter, @ardmara writes, “Jonathan Katz quite brilliant on the NPG/wojnarowicz censorship issue. This is a political moment.” Art [...]
2 February 2011 | Asia, Awards, Books
Women collectors are the subject of several recent publications including the Morey Award nominee Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China by Hui-shu Lee, who notes that “studies of imperial involvement in the arts in China have scanted the role of women.” This is the first art history book I’ve read that opens with [...]
